pcmcia wireless card problems, help! [SOLVED]

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

I have an orinoco gold pcmcia card.

I just installed gentoo (3rd time's a charm!) and the card worked flawlessly on install, but on reboot, the card doesn't work. When I try to start pcmcia, it states that it's already started.

help!

infiniteedge · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 149

you probably didnt compile the right drivers into your kernel. Try the file orinoco-0.13e-SN-9.tar.bz2 from this page: http://www.tzi.de/~plasmahh/orinoco.html . If you didn't compile in support for orinoco cards but did compile in support for wireless lans then that should get you going.

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

but the card worked on install, I downloaded everything from the mirrors at that time and rsync'd as well. Do I then need to compile the drivers in the kernel?

feivelda · Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:26 am Post subject:

You have also the chance to

infiniteedge · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 149

I wouldn't use the orinoco drivers in portage. 0.15rc2 is really terrible IMHO. use 0.13e that's included with the kernel or use the ones I linked to (which are patches off 0.13e). but the above poster is right.

And it probably worked during install because you loaded the drivers from the LiveCD. Now that you're in your own environment, you need to make sure your kernel is set up correctly. You ought to also emerge wpa_supplicant and start learning how to use it: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=4

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

Can I emerge the wpa_supplicant from the CD?

papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

also at reboot, I get

module orinoco_cs not found

How do I install the module with the CD? or can I? I'm unable to connect & download the drivers through emerge.

I am also getting a message that netmount could not start and that there is no eth0 configuration.

thanks!

feivelda · Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:16 am Post subject:

You only need the two options in the kernel, I said before
Hermes Chipset Support
Hermes PCMCIA card support
both as modules

After that, recompile your kernel as told in the Installation Guide

If you only want to download things or surf internet, the standard kernel would be ok.
If you want to sniff someone, I would use morph-sources, it has the patched orinoco drivers already inserted.

pele_smk · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject:

Where are the morph sources at? They aren't showing up in my portage...guess I'll try a quick sync
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feivelda · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 6:10 am Post subject:

For morph sources you need to download the ebuild seperatly or to sync with another overlay portage mirror at
http://gentoo.zugaina.org/
Everything on who to sync with this server is explained there, copy the app-portage/zugania-gensync to your portage overlay and emerge it, after that delete it in portage overlay ( it's in zugania overlay then ) and emerge morph-sources, they are included in zugaina